At first, I was buying Monbiot’s argument, but researching more, I don’t, and still believe that it’s be possible to rely on renewables and conservation — with a real political commitment. But in the real world, reducing nukes may mean that global warming becomes worse.

I was having a hard time wrapping this all into a cartoon and making it funny. Then the E. coli outbreak in Europe happened. And it was an unusually rainy spring in Ontario. So, like a bad-news vulture, I was able to pick laughs from the carcasses.